Treating Patients As People: What Do Hospital Patients Want Clinicians to Know About Them As a Person?

Background: There is little understanding or focus on the patient’s personal communicative perspective during their experience of clinical treatment. An exploratory study and a follow-up study were conducted at a large safety net hospital to determine whether and what patients wanted clinicians to k...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Donald L Zimmerman PhD, Dong-Jun Min PhD, Angela Davis-Collins RN, Peter DeBlieux MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-04-01
Series:Journal of Patient Experience
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2374373519826244